Putting in the Driveway, Carport and Sidewalk

We’ve been watching the weather forecast to try to schedule the pour for the driveway. They formed everything a week ago.

We left a strip between the two driveways so that it won’t look so much like we paved the whole front yard. Ends up that makes the driveway cost less, not more!

This is how they made the curves in the driveway and walkway. They notched the wood. It curves. The rods that look like rebar have holes in them. They screwed the wood forms to the rods.

They drilled the garage slab and put in rebar.

Finally the weather cooperated. Wednesday was forecast to be warm enough without rain. Thursday, Thanksgiving, was forecast to be even warmer. Today it is supposed to be colder with freezing rain by tonight, but that shouldn’t hurt anything.

When the truck got here things went really fast. Everybody was moving the cement at once.

The carport will be the same height as the garage.

This is a screed. It is a Pneumatic Walk Behind Screed. It vibrates to level the cement, take off high spots and fill low spots.

As the guy with the screed moves slowly over the driveway, the gravel shakes below the surface.

One truck full of cement was enough for the carport and most of it’s driveway.

You should have seen the next cement truck jogging back and forth to get into position without hitting anything. It was about a 42 point turn, but he got between the trench the plumbers were working in and the forms for the driveway without crushing the curb on the other side of the road.

Putting in the Driveway, Carport and Sidewalk Continued >